PM Modi, Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the link between India s Haldibari and Chilahati in Bangladesh (File)
New Delhi:
Defunct since the India-Pakistan war of 1965, the rail link between Haldibari and Chilahati was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, taking the number of operational rail links between the two countries to five.
With this new link coming into operation, tourists from Bangladesh will be able to visit places like Darjeeling, Sikkim, Dooars, apart from countries like Nepal and Bhutan, with ease.
Economic activities of these South Asian countries will also be benefitted from this new rail link, the railways said.
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A railway link between Haldibari in India and Chilahati in Bangladesh was jointly inaugurated during a bilateral summit.
This will immensely help in boosting people to people contact and economic activity in the region.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Thursday jointly inaugurated a railway link between Haldibari in India and Chilahati in Bangladesh during the virtual bilateral summit. This will immensely help in boosting people to people contact and economic activity in the region.
A goods train was flagged off by the Bangladesh Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan from Chilahati station which entered India passing through the international border thus heralding a new era for the people living in both the countries. The railway network of India and Bangladesh are mostly inherited from British Era Indian Railways.
With Haldibari-Chilahati Line, Number of Rail Links Between India, Bangladesh Rises to Five
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Defunct since the India-Pakistan war of 1965, the rail link between Haldibari and Chilahati was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, taking the number of operational rail links between the two countries to five. With this new link coming into operation, tourists from Bangladesh will be able to visit places like Darjeeling, Sikkim, Dooars, apart from countries like Nepal and Bhutan, with ease. Economic activities of these South Asian countries will also be benefitted from this new rail link, the railways said. Modi and Hasina jointly inaugurated the railway link between Haldibari in India and Chilahati in Bangladesh during a prime minister-level virtual bilateral summit.